This kit provides a replacement for DECUS SPELL, which is a VMS-based
spell-checker using indexed files.  The kit does not supply
replacement dictionary files, which should be acquired elsewhere.

0. Read the file AAAREADME.SPELL
1. Build the executable with SPELL.COM - you need a Pascal compiler 
2. Build the help file from SPELL.HLP
3. Edit SPELL_INIT.COM to point things at the right directories (logical
   SPELL_HELP is for the for the *.SPELL_HELP files) 
4. If you want to use SPELL from within EVE, see the file
   USE_FROM_EVE.NEWS_ARTICLE, which I include with its author's 
   permission.  You're on your own here: I don't use EVE; note, however,
   that the article talks about a version of SPELL that (a) requires
   installation with SET COMMAND (with this version it's optional), and
   (b) has no /OUTPUT qualifier (this version has) 
5. If this is your first-time installation, acquire some SPELL 
   dictionaries from somewhere.  They're PD, but I don't feel it's 
   sensible for me to post my (Anglicised) ones...

Give it a whirl with some `real' files of yours - there's no IVP ;-)

This modification of the software is supplied under the same
conditions as the Vassar College original by Mark Resmer; I haven't
touched his copyright notice, and make no copyright claim myself.

My thanks are extended to my \beta-testers.  One way or another, they'll
find that all the problems they found have been solved, and all their
suggestions (in particular, Ken Fairfield's on avoiding the use of SET
COMMAND) have been incorporated.  (They will all have been waiting for 
longer than seemed to me reasonable at the time I last mentioned a date: 
such is life - none has complained...)

The software is supplied (by me) on the off-chance that it may prove
useful.  I make no claims about its value, though I do use it
regularly myself, and it's what everyone on the VAX systems at
Laser-Scan uses (unless they're hooked into WordPerfect).

In particular, Laser-Scan has no involvement in any part of this
software beyond having supplied me with computing respources to use in
my spare time.

Robin Fairbairns, Senior Consultant, postmaster and general dogsbody
Laser-Scan Ltd., Science Park, Milton Rd., Cambridge CB4 4FY, UK
Email: robin@lsl.co.uk  --or--  rf@cl.cam.ac.uk